4 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 10, 1962
From Where We Stand.
Grain Storage Can
Most livestock producers and dairy
men in Lancaster County will be pur
chasing some hay this winter, and many
will have to buy some grain as well.
However, many com growers in the
county were pleasantly surprised when
they began harvesting their corn crops
this fall.
We have heard of reports of farm
ers in the southern end of the county
averaging 125 bushels an acre in spite
of the drought conditions during most of
the summer.
Some of these farmers may even
have more corn than they need to meet
their feed requirements, even though
they will be feeding heavier grain rates
in an effort to help make up the hay
shortage,
Some farmers will probably be
tempted to sell their excess corn as
soon as it is cribbed, and there are some
advantages to selling without a long
storage period, but statistics in past
years show there is very little price
risk involved in storing corn for five
or six months.
Naturally there are some risks of
loss from spoilage and from rats and
mice, but with the storage available on
most farms, or with the good temporary
storage facilities available at reasonable
cost, the losses in storage can be cut to
a minimum.
Over the past 10 or so years, farm
ers have been able to make an average
of 10 to 15 cents a bushel over storage
costs. During the same years, the price
average increased nearly 22 cents a
bushel three months after harvest time.
In most cases this was more than a
17 per cent increase over the price at
harvest time in October or early Nov
ember.
What are the chances that the price
increases will come this year? Market
ing specialists say that as long as this
area remains a grain deficit area (using
more corn than we grow) we-can expect
seasonal price advances that will at least
cover storage costs.
A common question is what does
it cost to store corn. Like all other costs,
this varies widely from farm to farm.
About half the cost will be the
storage facility itself. This is a fixed
cost whether or not you use it. Annual
fixed cost of a bin or crib is likely to
run about SVo to 8 cents a bushel. The
variable costs include interest on money
invested in the stored crop, damages
and losses (you never take out quite as
much as you put in), insurance, and the
added cost of handling the corn into and
out of storage as compared with selling
directly out of the field.
Total costs of storage for three or
more months wnll run somewhere be
tween 11 and 16 cents a bushel. Since
the average seasonal price advance has
been 22 cents for several years, there
is a chance for a 6 to 11 cent a bushel
profit.
On a 100 bushel yield, that figures
out to a six to eleven dollar an acre
profit, and that might be some of the
easiest money you made farming all
year.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Don’t Store Rffgs
In Heated Rooms
It may be all right during ijancaster CountVs Own Farm
Weekly
P. O. Box 1324
Lancaster, Penna.
P O Box 266 - Lxtitz, Pa.
the Mimnier, hut egg piodut-
ors should hn-d a better place
than a heated basement to
store eggs timing the ivintu. Ofllces
says Call O Dossm, Penn
State extension poultry
lahst. , -
Lancaster Forming
22 E Mam St
st, Lititz, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter
phone - Lancaster
E?Cpr ? &s 1-3017 .or Lltitz.Pa. under Act ol Mar,
LxtitzTVlA 'd-2191 ' ' 8. 18'7$. -
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Mean Extra Profit
Agriculture Advances
American agriculture has advanc
ed more in the past 50 years than in all
the prior years of our.history. Modern
fanning, combined with a progressive
system of marketing, processing and
merchandising is providing more -food
for Americans for less -money than ever
before.
In spite of this, the non-farm public
takes it for granted that food should be
cheap when all other items which make
up our living expenses are much higher
in comparison.
The foundation for continuing agri
cultural advance, which reach from
farm to market, to home, or industry, is
two-fold. It depends on research and the
hard work and ingenuity of farmers.
Agriculture is big business. There
is an investment of $21,300 for each
farm employee as compared with $15,-
900 for each worker employed in manu
facturing and industry. The biggest, of
our nation’s industries is composed of
3.7 million independent producers.
That’s the number of farmers shown in
a recent report of the Census Bureau.
These farmers and their employees feed
America . . with one person employed
in agriculture to 27 non-farm persons.
In Russia, the comparison is one farm
worker to two and one-half persons.
What a contrast!
Never before have so many been
fed so well for so little and with such
great efficiency as in America. This is
the success story of this decade.
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Dangerous Trend
A new and disturbing form of inte
gration from Ihe egg buyer back to
the farm level, on a coercive rather than
a voluntary basis has been reported
to us recently. If there is much of it
taking place hatcherymen and freedom
may be forced into some sort of retalia
tion. And, once again, the producer will
be caught in the middle.
To put the matter in its barest
terms, the egg buyer tells the produc
er, “I’d like to go on buying your eggs,
but I can use only eggs produced by a
certain strain of layers, fed on a parti
cular brand of feed. I’ll sell you the
chicks and the feed and buy your eggs.”
It is hard for us to believe that only
one kind of feed and one strain of lay
ers can produce the quality of eggs
that such a buyer must have for his
outlets. It is not hard to believe that he
stands to make a three-way profit from
his producers when he insists on selling
them the laying stock and feed before he
will buy their eggs.
In all previous “quality programs”
that we have heard about the producer
has been offered a choice of perhaps
four or five different strains and the
same number of feeds all of which
would produce eggs of comparable in
terior quality and yolk color.
A producer who is “offered” this
type of deal by his buyer should pass
along the word to excluded feed dealers
and hatcherymen in the area and
make every effort to locate a new buyer.
Everybody’s Poultry Magazine
Jack Owen, Editor
Robert G. Campbell,
Advertising Director
Established November 4,
1935. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit-
itz. Pa,
Btbl* Material: Cental! 1: 38-31;
Psalm 8; Matthew 8:34-34; Hebrew*
3 8-18.
De vatlanal Raa4la( i Hebrew* 3 8-18.
Ulan
I*Bhr for November 11, IW2
MOST people would rail the
Bible book about God; and
this 'hi -true!- Bdt then* is -some-'
thing just as-tfue, and for
.Important; itiaa bookabout man..
Just as there are truths about God
known, unless God
reveals them, so
.there are truths
, about man that
have to be shown
us. The race of
man has seldom
taken itself seri
ously enough.
Men suppose they
are like the beasts
that perish: today
here, tomorrow
gone, and nothing else to be said.
Men-think their Jives are. so short
and insignificant that it does not
matter to any one what they do.
Men have thought of themselves
as so tied to this planet Earth
that when it dies we shall die with
ft. Men have seen that we are"
animals, and so they think we
need 4io. more than animals do,
food, a roof, a little place in the
sunshine. What’s right or wrong
for a beast is right or wrong for
us . . . and so forth."
Man ths Master
, The .Bible gives no encourage
ment to any such mistakes. Man
is much higher than a mere
"higher animal.” He is first of all
a creature of God, that is the key
to the meaning of his existence.
“Thou hast made him,” the poet
psalmist cries. This alone gives
man a glory. The same hand that
wrought the universe, the same
Mind that conceived the galaxies,
are the mind and the hand that
designed and developed man and
mankind. Not only so, but God
has made man only a little lower
than God, so far as this earth is
concerned. On this earth, our
home, God has set man as the
master of all. Every living thing
is placed under the control of
man. Much that man does,-espe
cially the good that man does, is
part of his continuing age-old
struggle to be what God created
Now Is The
The forage testing program n available
for every farmer in the state, at this time
of the year when the winter feeding program
is ahead it is suggested that both dairy
and livestock producers test their hay and
silage, the quality of these forage crops
will determine the kind and amount of
grain that should be fed Due to the dry
season, some roughages may be poop in
quality and therefore, difficult to balance
with a grain ration unless a test is made.
hair coats are ahead for all kinds of cattle;
MAX M. SMITH in order to prevent a serious infestation of
cattle lice, it Is best to treat the animals in the fall if any lice
are detected Use rotenone or pyrethrum sprays or dusts on
milking cattle; on beef cattle or cows not milking use lindane,
co-ral, methoxjchlor, or Ronnel Repeat the application in i 2 to
14 days
To Provide Outside Exercise
Por Breeding Animals
All breeding animals should
be allowed outside daily ex
ercise, this >s just as true m
dairy cattle as it is in herds
of sows or flocks o£ ewes.
This exeruse provides animals
(omfort, maintains health,
and enables tne animals to
pioduce larger and stronger
>oung
To Eliminate
Hats and Mice
Rodents, take a.-heavy toll
and intended him to te:-^r»aete^
of life on thisplanet. Every-ho*<
' pital you see is a battle-ground, «
part of the long war against' tag
tiny living things that cause-dia*
ease,—germs and viruses, When
you see a wheat field or a watey
tower, you see signs of man's con
quest of hunger and thirst. When
you see a clothing store, or tarn
on your furnace or light the wooq
- in your fireplace, you are looking
at part of man’s long war with the
climates in which he lives." -Man
.Is not meant by the high CMS ‘to
be the victim ttf his 'environment
• but to rise above it and cmrtroWfc
Man lha Slava
But that is -not the wholsjotoef.
The meaning of man is ndtta-h*
found in-his conquests alone, tnit
in his .service. Some msiter'h*
must have.-hfan<ith«s beeh«d(&}
ts "incurably religious.”- that is
to Say, some God man-musttaare.
-He* has a kind- of worshipping in
stinct, The Strange thing is that
man is often found- devoting tmn
-*eif and his talents to wbat is ac
tually below him.
Jesus put it memorably: You
c'annot -serve God and mammon;
in other words, you cannot- serve
God and money. To serve God is
to fulfill the purpose for which
-you were created. To serve
money, -to serve things, is to be
a slave of what should serve man,
not ride him. Whatever a man
hangs his heart on and depends
on, that is God to him-, said Mar
tin Luther. Strange how many
idols man makes for hitnselfl
Man iha Spirit
Another mistake men -make
about'themselves is to uonfuse
themselves with their bodies. TPhis
is a -natural mistake,- because
whatever we do or think, we can
do or think only with the add of
our-bodies. But tfaatdoes not mean
that -&e body as the most impor
tant part of us. It does not rate
our major concentrated'interest.
It does not deserve the pamper
ing we give it. Jesus asks why
we put so much thought on caring
for our bodies.
A lady selling a young people’s
encyclopedia went by appointment
to a beautiful home where lived
A family with several children.
The lady of the house did not
the encyclopedia; too expensive,
she said. Her visitor pointed out:
“As I came up the drive I noticed
about $2OO worth of play equip
ment—bicycles and what not—m
the yard. Why do you spend all
that for what’s below their necks
and begrudge the same money for
their minds?” And she might well
have added: “And how much do
you spend for their souls?"
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churchea of
Christ In the V. 8. A. Released by
Community Press Servlet.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To Test Forage Crops
To Control Cattle Lice
Many weeks of cold weather and heavy
each vear and are a menace
to the health of both "man.
and beast There as little ex
cuse for a heavy infestation of
either rats or mice. First,
the premises clean and ‘free
from junk .piles and other ro
dent-harboring places Place
bait stations throughout the
buildings away from children
and livestock and keep {well
stocked with a variety of [poi
sonous baits Good farm ijmn
agement does not include; any
place for a heavy population
of either rats or mice; fthev
should • be ' -eliminated*—